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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

But when I talk to general partners at venture capital funds that focus on education — Learn Capital, where I work, Rethink Education, and University Ventures — they report that university endowments have not been nearly as interested as other institutions in the work we’re doing. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

If you want to learn about the subject, in fact, Hector's article is probably better — it's clearer in its descriptions of the relevant theories. Have we learned nothing in the intervening two decades? I don't really buy that anymore, and I don't think all that many economists do, either. But it's 22 years old.

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Parting Ways with Public Trading

Harvard Business Review

It is far more likely that the hard work of restructuring will be the task of private equity firms, leveraged buyout firms or hedge funds, all of whom have a financial motivation to make whatever disengagement decisions are necessary to profit from the eventual re-sale of a healthier company.